Publications
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Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Germany
(2007)
Using the example of Eichstätt, this book challenges current witchcraft historiography by arguing that the gender of the witch-suspect was a product of the interrogation process and that the stable communities affected by ...
The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture
(2015)
In The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture specialists in various fields of art history, from Early Christian times to the present, discuss in depth a series of Western artworks, artefacts, and buildings, ...
Nuaulu Settlement and Ecology
(1978)
This book is about the pattern of settlement and ecology of the Nuaulu, a group of sedentary swidden cultivators and hunters of southcentral Seram (Eastern Indonesia). It has three inter-related aims: to describe and account ...
Tan Malaka: strijder voor Indonesië's vrijheid
(1976)
Indonesia
The Struggle of Islam in Modern Indonesia
(1971)
Indonesia
Ceramics and the Spanish Conquest
(2012)
The Spanish colonization dramatically interrupted the autonomous development of ancient Mesoamerican culture. Nevertheless, indigenous societies learnt to live with the conquest. It was not only a time of crisis, but also ...
The state and illegality in Indonesia
(2011)
The popular 1998 reformasi movement that brought down President Suharto’s regime demanded an end to illegal practices by state officials, from human rights abuse to nepotistic investments. Yet today, such practices have ...
Jan Company in Coromandel 1605-1690
(1962)
Indonesia
The Demographic Evolution of Surinam 1920-1970
(1973)
Indonesia
In and Out of Suriname
(2015)
This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access In and Out of Suriname: Language, Mobility and Identity offers a fresh multidisciplinary approach to multilingual Surinamese society, that breaks through the ...
A Subgrouping of Nine Philippine Languages
(1969)
Indonesia
Lords of the land, lords of the sea; Conflict and adaptation in early colonial Timor, 1600-1800
(2012)
European traders and soldiers established a foothold on Timor in the course of the seventeenth century, motivated by the quest for the commercially vital sandalwood and the intense competition between the Dutch and the ...
Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money
(2008)
Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money is a groundbreaking study covering a range of contemporary authors and issues, from Haizi to Yin Lichuan and from poetic rhythm to exile-bashing. Its rigorous scholarship, ...
Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679)
(2012)
Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679) was the most prolific poet and playwright of his age. During his long life, roughly coincinding with the Dutch Golden Age, he wrote over thirty tragedies. He was a famous figure in political ...
De betekenis van het Mohammedaanse recht in het hedendaagse Egypte
(1960)
Indonesia
A Love Letter to the Many
(2024)
South Africa was the hope of the world. It had an impressive and rich tradition of left politics. At the heart of post-apartheid democracy-making was a revolutionary nationalist ANC, the oldest Communist Party in Africa, ...
The Family System of the Paramaribo Creoles
(1974)
Indonesia
Forgotten People: Poverty, Risk and Social Security in Indonesia
(2015)
In Forgotten People Gerben Nooteboom describes and analyses the livelihoods and social security of peasants and migrant Madurese. It offers a new way to categorise and analyse livelihood security of marginal people in ...
Planters against Peasants
(1982)
Indonesia
The Heritage of Arung Palakka
(1981)
Indonesia
Religion and Conflict Attribution
(2015)
Religion in a pluralistic society can play a dual role with regard to conflict. It can promote either violence or peace. Religion and Conflict Attribution examines the causes of interreligious conflict as perceived by ...
Handlungsspielraum
(2022)
Mit der polnischen Romantik verbindet sich ein Paradigma der ‚Tat‘, das den Freiheitskampf und die aufständische Tradition Polens im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert grundlegend prägte. In Debatten über nationale Identität und in ...
Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature
(2014)
Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature: Their Status and Roles explores the different attitudes toward the woman
Sja'ir Perang Mengkasar
(1963)
Indonesia
Travelling Chronicles
(2018)
Travelling Chronicles presents fourteen episodes in the history of news and newspapers, from the early modern period to the eighteenth century, written by some of the leading scholars in the rapidly developing fields of ...
Memory before Modernity
(2013)
This volume examines the practice of memory in early modern Europe, showing that this was already a multimedia affair with many political uses, and affecting people at all levels of society; many pre-modern memory practices ...
De factorij der Oostindische Compagnie te Patani
(1938)
Indonesia
War and Law in the Islamic World
(2015)
Armed conflict, today, has diverged from war as it was known in generations past, and from this, has tested the means by which conflicts and violence are regulated. Written with an eye to a region plagued by such conflicts, ...
The Wolio Language
(1988)
Indonesia
Administrating Kinship: Marriage Impediments and Dispensation Policies in the 18th and 19th Centuries
(2023)
From the late eighteenth century, more and more men and women wanted to marry their cousins or in-laws. In this case, bridal couples had to apply for a papal dispensation and this meant a hurdled, lengthy and also expensive ...
The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335)
(2010)
In the thirteenth century, the Armenians of Greater Armenia and of the Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia were invaded by Mongol nomads of the Inner Asian steppe. The ensuing Mongol-Armenian relations were varied. The Greater ...
De biografie van een Minangkabausen peperhandelaar in de Lampongs
(1961)
Indonesia
Chapter 4 Galen in Byzantine Medical Literature
(2019)
This chapter explores the various ways in which Galen was revived in the works of Byzantine medical authors by concentrating on literary output from the seventh/eighth century to the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman ...
Kana Sera, zang der zwangerschap
(1955)
Indonesia
Maker Education Meets Technology Education
(2023)
In this book two fields meet, Technology Education with its long history, and Maker Education, a relative new shoot in the educational field. Both focus on learning through making and both value agency and motivation of ...
The Ever-Reviving Phoenix
(2024)
For more than four and a half centuries, the Jesuits in Hungary were forced to repeatedly recommence their activities due to wars, uprisings, and political conflicts. The Society of Jesus first settled in Hungary in 1561 ...
From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond
(2024)
Two millennia ago, the Jewish priest-turned-general Flavius Josephus, captured by the emperor Vespasian in the middle of the Roman-Jewish War (66–70 CE), spent the last decades of his life in Rome writing several ...
A Collated and Critical Study of the Xiang’er Commentary to the Laozi
(2024)
This work is a translation of the Xiang'er commentary to the Daodejing and Jao Tsung-i's (1917-2018) supplemental notes and analysis. Jao Tsung-i offers a historically and hermeneutically rich study of the Xiang’er Commentary, ...